India, May 3 -- A 65-year-old retired biotechnology professor has been duped of Rs.12 lakh by unidentified cyber frauds who impersonated officials from the human resources department of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). The professor's 90-year-old father used to work at ONGC and the frauds siphoned off the money from his account after gaining access to his mobile phone under the pretext of updating his medical insurance records, said police.

According to the police, the complainant, a former professor at a Swedish university, lives in Versova with her father. On March 19, her father received a call from an unknown number, which had the ONGC logo as the profile photo. Since he could not make much sense of what the caller was say...